DOA ETG One Step Ethyl Glucuronide Test with CE certificate urine Test Device

One Step Ethyl Glucuronide Test is a rapid one step test for the qualitative detection of Ethyl Glucuronide in human urine at specified cut-off level.

For healthcare professional use only. For in vitro diagnostic use only.

INTENDED USE

The One Step Ethyl Glucuronide Test is a lateral flow chromatographic immunoassay for the detection of Ethyl Glucuronide at the cut-off level of 500 ng/ml.

The assay is intended to verify an intoxication in patients. It provides a qualitative, preliminary analytical test result. A more specific alternate chemical method must be used in order to obtain a confirmed analytical result. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is the preferred confirmatory method. Clinical consideration and professional judgment should be applied to any drug of abuse test result, particularly when preliminary results are positive.

Device:

• Remove a testing device from the foil pouch by tearing at the notch and place it on a level surface.
• Holding a sample dropper vertically, add exactly four drops of the urine specimen to the sample well.
• Read results at 5 minutes. Do not read after 10 minutes.

Strip:

• Remove the test strip from the sealed pouch and use it as soon as possible.
• With arrows pointing toward the urine specimen, immerse the test strip vertically in the urine specimen for at least 10-15 seconds. Do not pass the maximum line (MAX) on the test strip when immersing the strip.
• Place the test strip on a non-absorbent flat surface, start the timer and wait for the red line(s) to appear.
• The result should be read at 5 minutes. Do not interpret the result after 10 minutes.

SUMMARY

Ethyl Glucuronide (EtG) is a direct metabolite of alcohol. Presence in urine may be used to detect recent alcohol intake, even after alcohol is no longer measurable. Traditional laboratory methods detect the actual alcohol in the body, which reflects current intake within the past few hours (depending on how much was consumed). The presence of EtG in urine is a definitive indicator that it can be detected in the urine for 3 to 4 days after drinking alcohol, even alcohol is eliminated from the body. Therefore, EtG is a more accurate indicator of the recent intake of alcohol than measuring for the presence of alcohol itself. The EtG test can aid in the diagnosis of drunk driving and alcoholism, which has important significance in the forensic identification and medical examination.